David H. Munro
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David Herbert Munro is a physicist
at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
(LLNL) who created the programming language
Yorick
as well as the scientific graphics library
Gist
. Munro earned his B.S. at Caltech (1976) and Ph.D.
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(1980). He joined LLNL in 1980 and has primarily focused his research on laser fusion.
He received the Excellence in Plasma Physics award of the American Physical Society
in 1995.
Physicist
A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...
at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory , just outside Livermore, California, is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center founded by the University of California in 1952...
(LLNL) who created the programming language
Programming language
A programming language is an artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine and/or to express algorithms precisely....
Yorick
Yorick programming language
Yorick is an interpreted programming language designed for numerics, graph plotting and steering large scientific simulation codes. It is quite fast due to array syntax, and extensible via C or Fortran routines. It was created in 1996 by David H...
as well as the scientific graphics library
Graphics library
A graphics library is a program library designed to aid in rendering computer graphics to a monitor. This typically involves providing optimized versions of functions that handle common rendering tasks. This can be done purely in software and running on the CPU, common in embedded systems, or being...
Gist
Gist (Computing)
In computing, Gist is a scientific graphics library written in C by David H. Munro of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. It supports three graphics output devices: X Window, PostScript, and Computer Graphics Metafiles . The library is promoted as being small , efficient, and full-featured...
. Munro earned his B.S. at Caltech (1976) and Ph.D.
Ph.D.
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at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
(1980). He joined LLNL in 1980 and has primarily focused his research on laser fusion.
He received the Excellence in Plasma Physics award of the American Physical Society
American Physical Society
The American Physical Society is the world's second largest organization of physicists, behind the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. The Society publishes more than a dozen scientific journals, including the world renowned Physical Review and Physical Review Letters, and organizes more than 20...
in 1995.
External links
- RPM shipped by David H. Munro -- yorick-1.4-15.i386 (downloadable free software for Linux, listing as of Wednesday, March 29, 2006 16:05:02)